Sarah Rules

Dell suck. Stupid engineer can’t even tell the time, how am I supposed to trust him with my computer? Gr, got angry, manager’s phoning me later hopefully. I am Sarah, hear me roar.

Went out last night, I paid £11 for two doubles! I was in too much shock to realise I didn’t have to pay it. Wont be doing that again. But I had a top night. Came back and had discussions on everything ranging from dotting our ‘i’s with squirrels to the joke about the height of the Eiffel tower (the punchline is “299.92 m”). But the utter highlight of the evening was as follows:

The first take away of my University career. Bought for a mere £3 from the take away shop K2, two doors away from the flats. Perfect. The first of many I hope.

So I walked into Spar just now (I know it’s more expensive than LIDL is but quite frankly I’d rather walk for 1 minute than walk for 6) and I ask the guy if they have any honey loops (there’s no “nut” there anymore) and he says no.
“No?” I say,
“no, sorry” he replies.
“Not sorry enough” I say as I spit in his face. In the end I bought frosties. I know, not nearly as tasty but they make you look a tiny bit cooler if you happen to be walking down the street with them under your arm because you didn’t think a bag was worth it. Tiger beats bee any day.

Another logic lecture today, they seem to be the only ones I manage to last anywhere up to 10 minutes before looking at my watch. We proved that woman should shoot their husbands as soon as they find out they’re cheating on them. Or something along that line, I forget.

Maths was suicidal. It gets no more words than that.

The water is slowly turning me mad here. When you require a warm shower after having worked overly hard at the gym because you may have noticed someone who lives in the flat above you and you can’t finish before them because otherwise you’ll look unfit even though you are (we’ve all been there) erm, where was this sentence going? Yeah, I needed a shower and the water was cold. But when I need cold water to drink it comes out warm (I drink from the tap, not the shower). Why is this? No, it doesn’t work backwards, I tried setting the shower to very very cold but the plumbing system double bluffed me and my hair turned blue it was so cold. Like Rogue from X men or something but with less special powers.

I got hit with a staff at juggling last night as well. Although this was ok, because me and my juggle friend are getting good at juggling between two people. Which looks awesome.

Is anyone still getting the chocolate fountain related adverts at the side of their page? They seem to have gone, it’s upsetting me, I’m sure it will have the same effect for you… Maybe by typing it again I’ll have brought them back. I can only hope.

The DVD drive on my laptop has broken. This is a terrible thing. It means my maths assignment (due in tomorrow) was actually completed before 19.00 the night before. I’m almost certain this isn’t the student way of doing things. I’m also reading my notes and the text book chapters I should be. Again, this isn’t the sort of stuff a student does without exams the week day after.

There is nothing like walking through the meadows to make you feel very unfit. By about 6 in the evening I will have decided that the walking I did that day and quite possibly the gym visit will have been enough exercise for me. After Italian I discovered there are people out there who do not find that enough. They are determined to make others feel unfit. The meadows were full of football teams (yes, teamS), a rugby club and a cross country running club! Do these people not realise they no longer have to do PE? They’re at University now, they don’t have to run pointlessly for miles and miles. Really, I thought people at University were meant to be clever.

We all went out last night as a “yay, woohoo, we survived a whole WEEK of University” thing. Ok, not quite a week, there was a bank holiday on Monday, but whatever, we deserved to go out. I got a photo of everyone. Not everyone, but everyone in Flat 9, which is everyone that matters. Oh, before the picture, I got given a “Make Zombies History” wrist band randomly by the bar man at Potterow. I asked no questions, it glows in the dark.

Back row is Karen, Gillian, Jo then front is Hélene, Me and Sarah. (Hélene isn’t always that lary looking. Just a bad photo. We only took two and in the other one I look bad. My site, my choice of photo.)

We just had a fire alarm. It was flat 24 that set it off apparently. Just incase it affected you in any way, they’re the ones you need to be complaining to.

Me and Hélene were standing in the 3 items or less queue at Tesco (Edam, eggs and bread rolls as you asked) which makes customers look a dips while they wait. The sight of the “Tex Mex” dips caused me to exclaim,
“I really like Nachos, I could go for some of those.” At which point the man in front of us in the queue turns round and says,
“You like Nachos? You should visit [something like] nachogrill.com.” And he had the type of smile that should come with the ‘ding’ sound effect. I think I was unwittingly part of some TV commercial for this website. Only a really bad one, because I can’t find the site… Let me know if you ever get bored enough to look for it and manage to find it.

A brief update of the past few days:

• I got hit in the head with a club at juggling soc. It wasn’t even part of a trick.
• Come ti chiami? Mi chiamo Sarah. The fruits of Italian.
• I had a ‘logic lecture’. It’s fun to say aloud, try it.

That’s not to say I haven’t had any other lectures. Had some more maths ones. The fact that one teacher has a mad proffessor hair do and a polish accent is still novel to me. Once the first test comes I expect this effect to wear off quite quickly. I am now officially a computer geek. Today we were taught binary numbers, I look at 0110110111100001 and know what to do with it now. That’s a binding clause, once they teach us that there’s no going back, I’m CompSci whether I like it or not.
I’ve also worked out I can hear the sirens from my room too. This means I get all of the noise but none of the people watching opportunities of being on the front of the building.

Number of lightbulbs changed by me so far: 2
Number of oven doors broken by me so far: 1

I’m pretty sure that cancels out doesn’t it? Roughly, maybe?

The picture doesn’t do this thing justice. A Mars bar/crispie cake, nay, mountain. I’m not even kidding, this creation really exsists. And what’s more, it exsists for only 99p from the AMAZING shop that is just across the road from the flats. I can see it from the lounge window. What temptation! Pictures of said amazing shop will hopefully follow soon.

I had my first lectures today. The Computer Science lecture was ok, just an introduction, the professor spoke with a Disney perfect American accent. He seemed enthusiastic too. A good thing I think to avoid falling asleep in lectures. The maths one began with “defining the universe”. Later worked out he was referring to set theory but still, a worrying beginning. Italian was good. I was considering looking up the word for “good” in Italian but felt that would be cheating. I’m going to do it anyway I think. Buon. There you go. Going up to an 18th birthday party shortly (Scottish school system is madness, some people here aren’t 18 until February.). I’ve just eaten 3 Taxi bars as a congratulations to myself for completing my first day.

This is a picture of the flats I’m staying at. You get a first if you worked out the red box bit is our flat. My room’s at the back of the building though, no sirens in the night for me! Huzzah.